The ‘Wait, What?!’ of the Week, December 4, 2015

After the mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado last week, President Obama said, “Pro-lifers are not responsible for terrorism — people are responsible for violence and terrorism. I think we do ourselves a disservice in this fight if we are not taking into account the fact that the overwhelming majority of pro-lifers reject this ideology.”

Wait. What?! President Obama actually came to the defense of pro-life people?! No, just kidding. He never said that about pro-lifers. However, he did say exactly that about Muslims in the wake of [fill in the blank: Fort Hood, Boston Marathon, Chattanooga, Charlie Hebdo, Paris, San Bernadino, and dozens of other incidents where innocent people were murdered].

After an obviously deranged man, with no connection to any pro-life organization, shot people at the Colorado clinic, President Obama did scold pro-lifers not to “demonize” Planned Parenthood. Many spokespersons for the Democrat party (who comically call themselves impartial journalists) came right out and said that pro-life people were responsible for the Colorado killings because of their “hateful rhetoric” toward Planned Parenthood. Apparently, it’s wicked simply to point out that Planned Parenthood kills infants and harvests their body parts, but it’s perfectly fine for Planned Parenthood to actually do it.

A tip of the hat this week to a terrific blogger, Matt Archbold (creativeminorityreport.com), for the theme of this post, and who earlier this week asked this question: “Why is it that when a radical Muslim terrorist commits an atrocity their motive is unclear to all and their affiliation with Islam is denied everywhere. But a nutjob who shoots up a Planned Parenthood with no connection at all to the pro-life movement is the responsibility of all pro-lifers?” 

Matt, some people would point out that if you have to ask the question, it means our country is in big trouble. Many others, of course, would point out that by simply asking the question you have identified yourself as a racist, right-wing, anti-woman, Islamophobic, Bible-thumping, gun-nut, hater. Or something along those lines.